It's good to be Elfriede Jelinek - and win the Nobel Prize in literature - if you want people to buy your book

What a difference a day makes.

Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, was the author of books that mostly remained unread and unpurchased - until last Thursday, October 7.

Early that day, her novel "The Piano Teacher" was ranked 1,163,804 on amazon.

For comparison, even yours truly's first book

was ranked higher than that (932,715 if you must know).

My latest, though,

wasn't faring quite as well: it was down there at 2,068,715.

Without a bullet, it goes without saying. But I digress.

By Friday morning, Jelinek's book had climbed to No. 9.

Mine didn't change much at all.